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And Morisot would adopt his horizontal composition and reclaim her own motif in the exquisite painting from the summer of 1874 “In a Villa by the Sea.”

The president held up renderings of the ballroom, which followed the hotelier’s preferred motif of gilded fixtures against white walls.

Deep dives into his macabre oeuvre - which is peppered with references to death, remembrance, violence and bloody motifs - have led some to question if life was imitating art and vice versa.

And the station's vaulted and arched concourse, with a dome decorated with Persian motifs, features religious frescoes and artworks honouring Christianity's Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ.

Ms. Mumenthaler has constructed her character study with subtly expressionistic imagination, deploying an enveloping, finely tuned sound design and finding a transporting musical motif in Holst’s “The Planets.”